The Daily lays off 29% of staff
From All Things D: The publisher plans to tell its workers today that it will fire 50 of its 170…
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RJ Matson laid off from St. Louis Post Dispatch
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has announced it has laid off 23 staffers from their newsroom citing weak economic conditions. Riverfront…
Three Alabama newspapers going to 3 week printing schedule
The Birmingham News, the Press-Register in Mobile, and The Huntsville Times are moving to a three-day-a-week-in-print schedule. The Press-Register is…
Sun-Times: We are no longer a newspaper
The Chicago Sun-Times announced changes to its leadership and reorganizing of its newsroom recently. This quote caught my eye: “We…
Times-Picayune to drop to 3x weekly newspaper
The New Orleans Times-Picayune will soon cease to be a daily newspaper. The paper announced yesterday that it was moving…
NYT: The sports cartoon is dying
Excellent article in the New York Times about the decline of the sports cartoon in newspapers. They blended the skills…
Papers lose $7 in print ad revenue for every $1 digital gain
The Pew Research Center has issued a report that isn’t so surprising, but offers more concrete numbers to throw around…
New York Times reconsiders compensation to cartoonists
Two weeks ago the New York Times announced it was going to begin publishing cartoons each Sunday in their Week…
Prediction: Newspapers will be gone in 5 years
The Center for the Digital Future (part of the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism) has released a study…
Tablet users not paying more for news than others
As the rise of the iPhone Apps and other smart phones came on the market, there was a general feeling…
Apple’s Newsstand causes surge in newspaper app downloads
Poynter reports that the release of the latest operating system (iOS 5) for Apple’s iPad and iPhone has caused a…
The Daily struggles to gain subscribers
Bloomberg is reporting that Ruport Murdock’s much heralded The Daily is struggling to get enough subscribers to break even. The…
Newspapers giving tablets away, Amazon introduces Kindle Fire
Yesterday Amazon announced their new Kindle Fire tablet. The device is being hailed as the first serious tablet to compete…
NYTimes launches animated viral video technology
The New York Times has partnered with Xtranormal provide animated satirical cartoons for their website. Xtranormal uses a technology that…
WSJ launches Facebook app
Jeff Sonderman reports over on Poynter that the Wall Street Journal launched a Facebook app to allow “friends” to personalize…